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The sources of the Russia investigation should, as a matter of basic accountability, be established and disclosed. But no one who is not already a Trump voter cares about dubious investigatory decisions from four years ago. Nor is anyone as exercised as the president about critical things said about him on cable-TV programs. Trump has waged a low-intensity campaign against masks, for no good reason. By setting himself against them, largely on aesthetic grounds, Trump further opened himself up to charges that he doesn’t take the virus seriously — even before his illness and the White House outbreak.

IF LAURA INGRAHAM WRITES A FOLLOW-UP BOOK, IT SHOULD BE TITLED, SHUT UP AND MOURN! Yesterday, the Left again chose division over reconciliation, bitterness over harmony, and the transient over the transcendent at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. For the third time in as many years, leftists politicized a funeral service. And the most outspoken partisans present were a failed former president and a man who once bestowed an award on Moammar Qaddafi. President Bush, as ever, maintained his dignity and demeanor. He honored Coretta Scott King at the opening of his State of the Union Address and spoke...

By rights, the second Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad should be more devastating than the first. The new ad focuses on John Kerry's 1971 antiwar congressional testimony. If the content of the first ad, questioning the circumstances in which Kerry won his medals and Purple Hearts, inevitably becomes a "he said-he said," the second ad is an inarguable "he said it." Look it up in the Congressional Record, Thursday, April 22, 1971, Pages 179-210. One of the prisoners of war featured in the new ad, Paul Galanti, spent nearly seven years in captivity in Vietnam. "John Kerry gave the...